[R] R arrow crash

[6801318d8d]

Describe the bug, including details regarding any error messages, version, and platform.

Sometimes R arrow crash when I try to read a certain parquet file.

Here are the logs:

2026-06-04 08:12:41.680 [info] r-e5930b4c ** Begin kernel log for session R 4.6.0 (r-e5930b4c) at 6/4/2026, 8:12:41 AM **
2026-06-04 08:12:41.680 [info] r-e5930b4c Streaming kernel log file: C:\Users\raffaele\AppData\Local\Temp\kernel-ZnIQrk\kernel.log
r-e5930b4c [R]   2026-06-04T06:13:30.401118Z ERROR  
r-e5930b4c [R] >>> Backtrace for signal 11
r-e5930b4c [R] >>> In thread main
r-e5930b4c [R]    0: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]    1: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]    2: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]    3: seh_filter_exe
r-e5930b4c [R]    4: tree_sitter_r
r-e5930b4c [R]    5: _C_specific_handler
r-e5930b4c [R]    6: _chkstk
r-e5930b4c [R]    7: RtlLocateExtendedFeature
r-e5930b4c [R]    8: KiUserExceptionDispatcher
r-e5930b4c [R]    9: Z17Array__infer_typeP7SEXPREC
r-e5930b4c [R]   10: Z17Array__infer_typeP7SEXPREC
r-e5930b4c [R]   11: Z17Array__infer_typeP7SEXPREC
r-e5930b4c [R]   12: Z17Array__infer_typeP7SEXPREC
r-e5930b4c [R]   13: ZN5arrow10MemoryPool13ReleaseUnusedEv
r-e5930b4c [R]   14: ZNSt23_Sp_counted_ptr_inplaceIN5arrow8ListTypeESaIvELN9__gnu_cxx12_Lock_policyE2EED1Ev
r-e5930b4c [R]   15: ZNSt16_Sp_counted_baseILN9__gnu_cxx12_Lock_policyE2EE10_M_releaseEv
r-e5930b4c [R]   16: ZNSt23_Sp_counted_ptr_inplaceIN5arrow11NullBuilderESaIvELN9__gnu_cxx12_Lock_policyE2EED1Ev
r-e5930b4c [R]   17: ZN5arrow11ListBuilderD1Ev
r-e5930b4c [R]   18: ZN5cpp1116external_pointerISt10shared_ptrIN5arrow5TableEEXadL_ZNS_15default_deleterIS4_EEvPT_EEE9r_deleterEP7SEXPREC
r-e5930b4c [R]   19: R_RunWeakRefFinalizer
r-e5930b4c [R]   20: R_RunWeakRefFinalizer
r-e5930b4c [R]   21: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   22: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   23: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   24: Rf_eval
r-e5930b4c [R]   25: Rf_eval
r-e5930b4c [R]   26: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   27: magrittr_pipe
r-e5930b4c [R]   28: rwarn_
r-e5930b4c [R]   29: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   30: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   31: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   32: Rf_eval
r-e5930b4c [R]   33: Rf_eval
r-e5930b4c [R]   34: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   35: magrittr_pipe
r-e5930b4c [R]   36: rwarn_
r-e5930b4c [R]   37: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   38: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   39: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   40: Rf_eval
r-e5930b4c [R]   41: Rf_eval
r-e5930b4c [R]   42: R_ParseEvalString
r-e5930b4c [R]   43: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]   44: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]   45: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]   46: R_ExecWithCleanup
r-e5930b4c [R]   47: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]   48: R_ReadConsole
r-e5930b4c [R]   49: Rf_ReplIteration
r-e5930b4c [R]   50: Rf_ReplIteration
r-e5930b4c [R]   51: run_Rmainloop
r-e5930b4c [R]   52: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]   53: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]   54: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]   55: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]   56: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]   57: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]   58: <unknown>
r-e5930b4c [R]   59: tree_sitter_r
r-e5930b4c [R]   60: BaseThreadInitThunk
r-e5930b4c [R]   61: RtlUserThreadStart
r-e5930b4c [R] 
r-e5930b4c [R]     at crates\ark\src\traps.rs:41
r-e5930b4c [R] 
r-e5930b4c [R]   2026-06-04T06:13:31.735491Z  WARN  Failed to process positron.ui request: there is no package called ‘renv’
r-e5930b4c [R]     at crates\ark\src\comm_handler.rs:215
r-e5930b4c [R] 

Here is my sessionInfo:

    sessionInfo()
    R version 4.6.0 (2026-04-24 ucrt)
    Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
    Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 26200)

Matrix products: default
LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8

time zone: Europe/Rome
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.6.0 tools_4.6.0

Component(s)

R

[thisisnic]

Thanks for reporting this @6801318d8d. Are you able to share a reproducible example at all of the code you ran before the error occurred? If you can't share the file, it'd be useful to have some more context about its properties, schema, size, and if you get the same error with other files or not.

I think the sessionInfo() there might be from a new session as it doesn't show any packages loaded.

[6801318d8d]

I can share the db if you promise not to share it again.

It's public data anyway.

It's 53 MB, just give me an email address.

But the crash doesn't happen always, only sometimes. I don't know the exact circumstances taht trigger it.

This is the code I use to load it:

paper_db <- arrow::read_parquet(paper_out_fp) %>%
  rename(paper_title = title, paper_topics = topics) %>%
  mutate(across(publication_type_detailed, \(x) {
    # new=old
    fct_recode(as.factor(x), Book = "book", ConfProc = "confproc")
  }))